Author Archives: Zoness

Good News October 2022

Posted on October 11, 2022 by Zoness

Autumn is settling in quickly here! I just returned from a ten day trip to coastal Alabama where the weather was dry, warm and the beaches were soft and the Gulf of Mexico was very pleasant. Now that I am … Continue reading →

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Grounding Oneself

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Zoness

The blog has been quiet lately because I’ve been mired in a well over a month long major work effort at my job. As a software developer responsible for a platform used by thousands, I’ve had a lot of work … Continue reading →

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Good News June 2022

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Zoness

Surely there’s a lot of bad to see in the world lately and surely its easy to find everywhere else on the internet. I’ve resolved that I’d like to post a couple of positive headlines a month in a summary … Continue reading →

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Surveillance Capitalism and Post Roe America

Posted on June 28, 2022 by Zoness

Unless you live outside of the United States, it would be impossible to ignore the news of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. Republicans, Christian nationalists and reactionary conservatives have been pining for it since decades before I was … Continue reading →

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Summer Solstice Soundbites

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Zoness

Summer Solstice, also known as Litha, is less than twenty four hours upon us as of my writing. You wouldn’t know it based on the record heatwave many of us have been facing in the center of the country! Climate … Continue reading →

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Old Places and Liminal Spaces

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Zoness

Last week, the day before I flew out to Denver for a long time good friend’s wedding, I made a brief detour in my hometown and adjacent town. I visited the adjacent town because other long time friends have made … Continue reading →

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Migration Complete

Posted on May 26, 2022 by Zoness

In my tear to move everything to docker on a fresh server, the blog is the next thing to make its way over. Now that I feel like I am getting a genuine grip of how this all works I … Continue reading →

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Learning Docker, Part 1

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Zoness

Time to make the next step in my career, and growing past just working in legacy .NET Framework apps. I am finally learning how to use Docker and containers effectively. It’s taken awhile to wrap my head around what containers … Continue reading →

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Long Nights

Posted on May 12, 2022 by Zoness

My beautiful son was born too weeks ago! I am totally in love with him and my wife and I are re-learning our lives around his existence. This means a lot of sleepless nights and not a lot of free … Continue reading →

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Cloud Storage Woes

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Zoness

Everyone loves Google Drive, Microsoft’s OneDrive, Dropbox and the million other services that exist out there. They offer create and (mostly) cost effective ways to backup or sync files across many devices. However, even in the year 2022 I still … Continue reading →

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